The Contingency Plan

... Luc came to Sydney from Vancouver. I can still vividly remember waking up at 4am to pick him up from the airport. It was the first time I'd driven to there alone so I naturally got lost on the way home and we ended up at Bondi Beach.

Can you all believe how fast the time has gone by?!

In those six years we've:

* Sat at the end of the very back row of the very last section of the Olympic stadium to watch the athletics at the 2000 Olympics, staying out late every night to go to the Sussex Lane party

* Networked our computers and spent three solid days playing video games, only stopping to order food, go to the loo, shower and sleep

* Gone through a phase of collecting subway stamps for food so we could make ends meet

* Become real workaholics to ensure that never happens again!

* Taken a three week driving trip throughout country New South Wales

* Held hands at the concert of one of our favourite bands 'Lamb', while they perfectly performed their infamous 'Gorecki' track

* Moved on average once every two years, our favourite being the perfect little harbourside apartment at McMahons Point. Ah, if only it didn't feature eleven flights of stairs and was big enough to fit our budding family....

* Become rather intoxicated, crazy danced at the Moloko concert and ran up and down the Planet X skateboard ramp at an Xbox birthday party

* Held countless parties and picnics with friends and family, some of the most memorable being Luc's 22nd 'Nerds and Geeks' cocktail birthday party, my surprise 23rd birthday party, that gorgeous waterfront 'Great Gatsby' inspired Valentines Day picnic, the drunken, (bad) recording fest that was the end of my baby shower and who could forget the way Hugo munched into his cake at his first birthday shindig!

* Entertained shameless addictions to 'The Simpsons', '24', 'Fraiser' and... 'America's Next Top Model' to just name a few

* Celebrated a beautiful New Years with both families in the same city

* Scored numerous freebies and posed for a ridiculous number of photos for Hugo-obsessed peeps in Tokyo

* Indulged with a month of family-loving fun in Canada

* Had a stunningly amazing beautiful boy

* Taken a helicopter ride through the Whitsundays

* Started our own businesses

............ Makes you wonder what's next!

You've been busy!! Congrats on your 'anniversary', I have got one tomorrow as well, 5 years in Dubai. Gulp. Where, oh where does the time go?

Your 'little monkey' is really cute! Must be nice to have hair to cut!

HMHB

Here's to another six years!

Darn, you two have been busy.

Thanks you two!

Yes, we've certainly been busy :)

And congratulations HMHB on five years in Dubai! I have friends contemplating the move as others have saved more in 2 months there than they did in 2 years here. I guess the tax free living and all those perks of free accommodation and travel help!

I think the little monkey is cute too. Hair cut was definitely needed.